Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-09
1.-THE Young Lady,"


ma'am."
Emily Vaughn looked to left and TO
right and was conscious of feeling of
disappointment She had pictured the
top of the Rocky Mountains rs some
thing quite different from this. Here
were no frowning heights or sudden
CULTS, only a wide-rolling plateau. some
distant peaks which d d not look very
high, and far ahead a glimpse Of lower
levels rum ng down into plains. 1t
seemed hardly worth while TO have
come so far for so little.
Really" she said. "But where are
the mountains' They don't look nearly
30 high as they did yesterday"
Naturally. am" responded the
engineer; things don't appear so high
when you're as high as they are. We're
atop. you know"
But there no look-off. no wonder
full distance, as from the top of Mt
Washington. / confess ! am disap-
pointed.
Az hllu Vi IuCtl, sulu Ouu StOlty
with dry chuckle. chow folks from
the East keep abiding to that ere
little hill as II il were the standard of
measurement. We don't think so much
of it this way. Why, ma'anl you're
about 2000 feet higher at this minute
than If you was at the top of that little
shuck of Mt Washington that they
all think so much of.
Miss Vaughn smiled, bat she expert
enced n shock nevertheless The New
England mnd does not easily accus-
tom itself to hearing its sacred noun
tain thus lightly spoken against.
"Have You ever seen Mt. Washington?'
she asked.
''Oh. bless you, yes" replied John
SCOTT, cheerfully. Il was raised over
to Fryeburg, and grew up alongside of
It, thought ii was pretty big con-
Germ when l was a boy, but now" He
closed the sentence with short eX-
pressive laugh.
Miss Vaughn changed the subject.
She was not offended. She had grown
TO Ike this rongh, goodnatured en-
gineer in the course of the ee-days
Journey, during which, favored as a
relative of one of the directors of the
road. she had several times been privi-
legged TO ride, as now. in the engi-
neer's cab for a better view of the
country.
Have you been long on this road?"
she asked.
Pretty near. ever since it opened
run the third through train that came
out from Chicago. and l havn't been
off the line since, Winter or Summer,
except for three months when was
laid up with a broken leg"
This must look very different in
Y Winter" said Miss Vaughn, noting
the treeless distances. and the SHOWS
still glinting on the higher peaks to the
left.
You may believe il does. That frs,
year, when the snow sheds wasn't
hnilt, it was terrible. was running
that train that stuck in the snow seven
days perhaps you'll remember about
it; it was in all the papers. l sha'n't
never forget that not if live to be as
old as my grandfather, and he didn'
die till he was ninety cdd.'
Tell me about it, said Miss Vaughn.
persuasively, setting herself on the
high side bench of the cab with tina,
air of attention which is so en-,
ticing to the story teller; amusements
are few and far between in the long
monotony of the overland journey 70
California; besides which, Miss Vaughn
dearly loved a story.
There amt much 10 tell" said
John Scott with something OF the
feeling which prompts the young
vocalist to complain Of hoarseness. "a
amt any hand at telling things, either
Then. won by Miss Vaughn's appeal
Ing eyes, he continued:
I'VE ran all fair and on time till we
was about 200 miles beyond Omaha.
Then the snow began. 1t didn't seen
much at first. The women-folk in the
train rather liked 1t. They all crowded
to the windows 10 see. and the children
hurrahed Anything seemed pleas.
ant change after the sagebrush, l sup
pose. But ms IL went on coming. and
the drifts grew deep, and the cars had
TO run slow. the older ones began tc
look serious, and can tell you that we
who had charge of the train felt so.
I'VE was just between two Of the
feeding stations, and we put on all the
steam we could, hoping to push through
to where provisions could be got at II
case we had to stop. But it want NJ
use. The snow kept coming never
see 1t come so. The flakes looked a,
big as saucers, and the drifts piled Sc
quick that, when we finally stuck, il
about ten minutes no one could see on
of the windows. The train would hav,